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 MURRAY

MUSSEY

signed and engaged in literary work for one year. He\vas preacher and pastor of the Independent Congregational church worsliipping in Music Hall, Boston, 1875-78, and then retired from the ministry to devote himself to travel and author- ship. He was married in 1886 to Frances Mary Rivers, and had four daughters. His published works include: Adventures in the Wilderness (1868) ; Sermons Delivered in Park Street Church and Music Hall, Boston (1870-78) ; Words Fitly Spoken (1873) ; The Perfect Horse (1873) ; Adiron- dack Tales (6 vols., 1877-97) ; Daylight Land (1888) ; Canadian Idyls, Mamelons (1890) ; Cana- dian Idyls. Ungava (1890) ; Holiday Tales (1897) ; Apple Tree's Easter (1900) ; Hoiv I am Educating My Daughters (1901).

HURRAY, Wiiliam Vans, diplomatist, was born in Cambridge, Md., in 1762; son of Henry Murray ; grandson of William Murray, who came from Scotland to Cambridge, Md., in 1716, and a descendant on his mother's side of Bartholomew Ennalls, who came to Maryland about 1669. William Vans Murray was educated in Maryland until 1783, when he went to London, England, and studied law in the Temple. He returned to Maryland in 1785, practised law and represented Dorchester county in the Maryland legislature. He was a Federalist representative in the 2d, 3d and 4th congresses and served from Oct. 24, 1791, to March 3, 1797. In 1797 he was appointed by President Washington U.S. minister to the Netherlands, where he restored the harmony which had been interrupted through the influ- ence of France. He was appointed by President Adams sole envoy-extraordinary to France in 1799, but was afterward associated with Judge Oliver Ellsworth and Gov. William R. Davie. The Convention of Paris, Sept. 30, 1800, which put an end to the difficulty between France and the United States, was accomplished mainly through his efforts. He returned to his duties in the Netherlands in October, 1800, and in 1801 re- signed and returned to Maryland. He published The Constitution and Laws of the United States, a pamphlet. He died at Cambridge, Dorchester county, Md., Dec. 11. 1803.

MUSQRAVE, George Washington, clergy- man, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 19, 1804 ; son of Joseph and Catharine (Schaumenkessel) Musgrave. He was prepared for the junior class of the College of New Jersey at Dr. Samuel B. Wylie's classical academy, but ill nealth pre- vented his entering, and he continued his studies privately and attended Princeton Theological seminary, 1836-27. He was licensed by the pres- bytery of Baltimore, Nov. 5, 1828, and engaged in city mission work. He was ordained pastor of the 3d Presbyterian church of Baltimore, July 85, 1830, and served, 1830-52 ; was corresponding

secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Publica- tion, 1853-53, and of the Board of Domestic Mis- sions, 1853-61 and 1868. He was pastor of the North Penn church, Philadelphia, Pa., 18G3-68 : moderator of the General assembly, 1868 ; presi- dent of the Presbyterian Alliance, Philadelphia, 1870-82, and was chairman of the joint committee on reconstruction between the old and new school branches of the church. He was president of the board of trustees of the Presbyterian Histori- cal society, 1876-82 ; of the Presbyterian hospital for several years ; a director of the Princeton Theological seminary, 1837-83, and a trustee of the College of New Jersey, 1859-82. The honorary degree of S.T.D. was conferred on him bv the College of New Jersey in 1845 and that of LL.D. by the University of Indiana in 1862. He is tlie author of : Polity of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States (1843) ; sermons: Sermon on the death of Maj. James Oiven Law (1847); Vindication of Religious Liberty (1834) ; Brief Expos it io7i and Vindication of the Doctrine of the Divine Decrees (1843) ; Sermon on the Death of the Rev. Dr. WilUayn Kevins (1835). He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 34, 1882.

MUSICK, John Roy, author, was born in St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 28, 1849. He was graduated at Northern Missouri State Normal school, B.S., 1874, and was admitted to the bar in 1877. He practised in Kirkville, Mo., 1877-82, and was U.S. commissioner there for ten years. In 1882 he gave up the practice of law to devote himself to literature. He was married, June 13, 1876, to Augusta P. Roszelle. He was a member of the Society of American Authors ; of the Western Authors' Club of Kansas City, and of the Authors' Guild of New York, of which he was twice elected president. He is the author of : Brother against Brother; Banker of Bedford; Calamity Row; Columbian Historical Xovels (12 vols. 1891 et seq.) ; History Stories of Missouri (1897) : Hawaii: Our Neiv Possessions (1898) ; The War with Spain (1898) ; Lights and Shadotvs of the War with Sjxiin (1898) ; His Brother's Crime; Cuba Libre. He died in Omaha, Neb., from injuries received while rescuing the injured after a cyclone at Kirkville. Mo., April 14, 1901.

MUSSEY, Ellen Spencer, educator and law- yer, was born in Geneva, Ohio, May 13, 1850 ; daughter of Piatt R. and Persis (Duty) Spencer ; granddaughter of Caleb Spencer, a Revolutionary soldier, and a descendant on the maternal side from Moses Warren, an officer of the war of the Revolution, and on the paternal side from the English Spencer family. Her fatlier was author of the Spencerian system of penmanship. She attended private academies, was principal of the ladies department. Spencerian college, D.C., and married in 1871 Gen. Reuben D. Mussey. She